CURRICULUM VITAE
Yoshimichi Ishikawa（石川義道）
http://researchmap.jp/y.ishikawa/?lang=english
Updated 5 August 2023

Personal Data
Work Address

Yada 52-1, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka City, Japan ZIP: 422-8526

E-maily.ishikawa@u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp

Telephone

Mobile: +81(0)80 3637 3785

NationalityJapanese

Current Positions

October 2014 – PresentLecturer, School of International Relations, University of Shizuoka, Japan
Subjects taughtInternational Economic Law, Introduction to Law

Former Position

April 2023 – September 2023
Part-time Lecturer at Nagoya University, Faculty of Law
July 2010 – August 2014
Officer/Researcher, WTO Dispute Settlement Division, Economic Bureau,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
April 2010 – June 2010
Research Assistant, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry(RIETI), JapanDegree

International Trade in Food after a Nuclear Accident
A dissertation submitted to the University of Bern, Switzerland (magna cumlaude) (2020) https://boristheses.unibe.ch/3611/

Education

Nagoya University (Bachelor of Laws)
Yokohama National University (Master of International Economic Law)
University of Bern (PhD in Law)

Languages

Japanese (mother tongue), English, Chinese (Basic)

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Others

Shizuoka Prefecture Government Procurement Complainant ReviewCommittee (Jan 2018 – Present)
Associate Editor of Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law andAffairs (May 2015 – Present)

AffiliatedJapan Association of International Economic Law

Associations

Japanese Society of International Law

Publications
Book Chapters“EU Measures on Palm Oil Biofuels and WTO Disputes”, in Challenges andProspects of International Economic Law (in Celebration of Professor
Shizuo Shimizu’s 70th Birthday) (Shinzansha, 2023) (forthcoming) (inJapanese)“An Analysis of Mutual Recognition of Organic Equivalence between Japanand Taiwan”, in Hiroyuki Banzai (ed.), Japan-Taiwan Economic Exchangeand International Law (Seibundo, 2022) at 49-79. (in Japanese)“Risk Assessment and Management of Pesticide Residues in the EU –Preliminary Considerations on Genotoxic Carcinogens and International
Trade”, in Masaharu Yanagihara et al. (eds), International Legal Order andGlobal Economy (Shinzansha, 2021) at 575-600. (in Japanese)“Regulating the Administration of Trade or Customs Laws and Regulations:
Reassessing the Role of Article X:3(a) of the GATT 1994”, in Won-Mog
Choi (ed.), International Economic Law: The Asia-Pacific Perspectives(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015) at 164-195.
“Border Adjustment Measures and the WTO Agreement”, in T. Arimura, M.
Yomogida, and T. Kawase (eds.), Measures against Global Warming andInternational Trade (University of Tokyo Press, 2012) at 225-262. (inJapanese)

Articles“Are Korea’s Import Ban on Japanese Foods Based on ScientificPrinciples? Comments on Reports of the Panel and the Appellate Body on
Korean Import Bans and Testing and Certification Requirements forRadionuclides (WT/DS495)”, 11(1) European Journal of Risk Regulation(2020) at 155-176. Co-authorship with Taro Hamada.
“Achieving Regionalization Immediately after the Occurrence of Outbreakof Infectious Livestock Diseases: Cooperative Relationship between
Bilateral Frameworks and the WTO Framework”, Financial Review 140(2019), at 88-114 (in Japanese).
“[WTO Case Review Series No.24] Russian Federation—Measures on theImportation of Live Pigs, Pork and Other Pig Products from the European
Union (DS475): Clarifying the regulatory framework of regionalization underArticle 6 of the SPS Agreement”, RIETI Policy Discussion Paper Series(2017) at 1-105. (in Japanese)2

“[WTO Case Review Series No. 19] United States – Measures Affecting theImportation of Animals, Meat and Other Animal Products from Argentina(WT/DS447): A Delay in the Review Procedures upon Request for Imports
and the SPS Agreement”, RIETI Policy Discussion Paper Series (2017)at 1-46. (in Japanese)“Import Restrictions against States to Combat IUU Fishing: Analysis of thePractice of RFMOs and EU's Reaction”, 85 Seijo Law Review (2017), at47-84. (in Japanese)“[WTO Case Review Series No.15] India – Measures Concerning theImportation of Certain Agricultural Products (WT/DS430): Toward theimplementation of sanitary and phytosanitary measures based onregionalization”, RIETI Policy Discussion Paper Series (2016) at 1-39. (inJapanese)“Case note: United States - Trade Measures Affecting Nicaragua (L/6053
GATT Report)”, Oxford Reports on International Law: International Trade
Law Decisions (2016).
“Case note: Thailand — Customs and Fiscal Measures on Cigarettes fromthe Philippines (DS371 Panel Report)”, Oxford Reports on International
Law: International Trade Law Decisions (2015).
“[WTO Case Review Series No.11] Philippines—Taxes on Distilled Spirits(WT/DS396/DS403): Liquor tax system in developing countries and thenational treatment”, RIETI Policy Discussion Paper Series (2015), at 1-72.
(in Japanese)“The EU-Faroe Islands Herring Stock Dispute at the WTO: theEnvironmental Justification”, 18(4) ASIL Insights (2014).
“Plain Packaging Requirements and Article 2.2 of the TBT Agreement”, 30
Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs (2014), at72-106.
“US-Certain Country of Origin Labelling Requirements (DS384/386) : The
Analysis of the Necessity Requirement under TBT Article 2.2: (2), 41(5)Journal of the Japanese Institute of International Business Law (Kokusai
Shoji Homu) (2013), at 690-703. (in Japanese)“US-Certain Country of Origin Labelling Requirements (DS384/386) : The
Analysis of the Necessity Requirement under TBT Article 2.2: (1), 41(4)Journal of the Japanese Institute of International Business Law (KokusaiShoji Homu) (2013), at 499-513. (in Japanese)“Analysis of Less Favourable Treatment under Article 2.1 of the TBTAgreement”, 22 Yearbook of the Japan Association of International
Economic Law (2013), at 141-166. (in Japanese)“The Concept of the Burden of Proof in the WTO Dispute Settlement
Procedure: Analysis of Article 10.3 of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture”,
12 (4/5) Yokohama Journal of Social Sciences (2008) at 617-634. (inJapanese)3Book Reviews“Kokusai Keizai Ho [International Economic Law] By Mitsuo Matsushita andKazumochi Kometani (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2015),
xxxii+828pp. Hardcover: ¥ 8,800”, 8(2) Asian Journal of International Law(2018) at 492-494.
“The WTO and International Investment Law: Converging Systems byJürgen Kurtz, (Cambridge University Press, 2016, xiii + 311pp.), 26
Yearbook of the Japan Association of International Economic Law (2017)at 235-239. (in Japanese)“Benn McGrady, Trade and Public Health: The WTO, Tobacco, Alcohol,and Diet (Cambridge University Press, 2011)”, 21 Australian International
Law Journal (2015), at 125-127.
“The Future of the Multilateral Trading System: East Asian Perspectives byAkira Kotera, Ichiro Araki, Tsuyoshi Kawase. London: CMP Publishing,2009. xxvii+425 pp. Hardcover: $260.” 2(2) Asian Journal of International
Law (2012), at 400-401.

Presentations
June 2022

Japan’s new trade regulations for IUU Fishing and the CPTPP: CatchDocumentation Scheme, Korea-Japan Fisheries Policy Expert Workshop

Dec 2020

Discipline in International Trade in Food After a Nuclear Accident: The Roleof ICRP Recommendations, ICRP International Conference on Recovery
After Nuclear Accidents Radiological Protection Lessons from Fukushimaand Beyond

May 2019

Radioactive Materials, Food Safety and International Trade: From
Chernobyl to Fukushima, European Society of International Law (ESIL)
Interest Group on International Environmental Law
Moscow, Russia

Sep 2018

Global Protection of Fisheries Resources through Unilateral Trade
Restrictions: An Analysis of EU’s Regulation against IUU Fishing,
Japanese Society of International Law, Annual Conference 2018 (inJapanese)Apr 2017

Exploring the Policy Implications of US – Animals (DS447) for South AsianCountries, The South Asia International Economic Law InauguralConference
New Delhi, India

Nov 2015

Conservation of Eels in Asia through Trade-Related Measures, The 5th
Biennial Conference of the Asian Society of International Law 2015Bangkok, Thailand

May 2015

Effectively Combating Avian Flu in Asia through "Regionalization", 2015
ILA-ASIL Asia-Pacific Research Forum: Integrating the Asia-Pacific: Why
International Law Matters?
Taipei, Taiwan

Feb 2014

Burden and Standard of Proof in the WTO Dispute Settlement System,
Annual Doctoral Seminar 2014 World Trade InstituteBern, Switzerland

July 2013

Regulating the Administration of Trade Laws under Article X:3(a) of the4

GATT, Asian International Economic Law Network (AIELN) III Seoul
ConferenceSeoul, South Korea
May 2013

The WTO and Tobacco Control in Asia: Feasibility of Plain Packaging
Requirements, 2013 ILA-ASIL ASIA-PACIFIC RESEARCH FORUM:
International Law and Dispute Resolution: Challenges in the Asia PacificTaipei, Taiwan

Other Works

Post-Buenos Aires: Tackling Fisheries Subsidies Contributing to IUUFishing through Unilateral Trade Measures? EJIL: Talk! (January 2018)https://www.ejiltalk.org/post-buenos-aires-tackling-fisheries-subsidies-contr
ibuting-to-iuu-fishing-through-unilateral-trade-measures/5